Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current ActsPreamble
WHEREAS by the Act eighteenth Victoria No. XLV intituled "An Act to enable the Bishops Clergy and Laity of the United Church of England and Ireland in Victoria (now described as the Church of England in Victoria under the authority of the Amending Act 36 Victoria No. 454) to provide for the regulation of the affairs of said Church" certain powers are conferred upon the members of the said Church meeting in assembly as therein mentioned of managing the property of the said Church:
AND WHEREAS the members of the said Church are desirous in order the more effectively to carry out the powers so conferred that the property of the Church be vested in corporate bodies of trustees and be dealt with in manner hereinafter mentioned:
BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Victoria in this present Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows: